WALES stands out as the only part of the UK which has seen no philanthropic donations worth £1m or more made by wealthy individuals or corporations in the past two years.

The annual Coutts Million Pound Donor Report, produced in association with the University of Kent, has found a record total of 232 separate “£1m or more” philanthropic donations made by individuals, trusts and corporations in the UK during 2010-11.

This is the largest total identified by the report in any one year since the study began in 2008, up by 58 donations on the previous year.

There has also been a big increase in the number of million pound donors with 130 different donors identified, up from 73 the previous year.

This includes individuals, charitable trusts, foundations and corporations, some of whom made more than one donation worth £1m or more.

The total value of donations though has fallen dramatically – 31.8% in real terms since the first report covering 2006-7, from £1.82bn to £1.24bn. This means the average value of donations has fallen substantially. At £5.3m it is the lowest recorded, down from more than £8.25m in 2006-7.

More than half of the million pound donations made in 2010-11 were donated by 93 individual donors, with a total value of £763m.

The annual report, now in its fifth year of publication, tracks the size, scale and recipients of donations worth £1m or more from individuals, trusts and corporations in the UK. Altogether, 191 organisations received million pound donations in 2010-11, substantially higher than the 154 recipients identified in 2009-10.

The majority (166) received only one gift of this size. Organisations that received multiple million pound donations tended to be the oldest universities (notably Oxford and Cambridge) or national arts and cultural institutions.

Wales was the only part of the UK where the report authors failed to identify any seven-figure donation, for the second year running. London (62%) and the South East (6%) together account for two thirds of donations, while the North East and the Midlands generated five donations each.